On that Day as Today in 722 Took Place the Battle of Covadonga

In the spring of the year 711 Tariq ibn Ziyad landed in the bay of Algeciras, in what was the beginning of a fulgurating advance of the armies of the Umayyad Caliphate through the Iberian Peninsula to the Cantabrian cornice, where this battle was a turning point.The advance of Islam lasted at least ten more years in the east, where they were not stopped until the battle of Poitiers, on November 10, 732, in which the Muslim dispersion for Europe …